The Pirate Bay Becomes #1 File-Sharing Website

The Pirate Bay moving its servers to the U.S. to become “The Freedom Bay” is obviously the popular torrent-tracking website’s April Fools’ Day joke, but its popularity over the years has been slowly rising with it reaching the top of the file-sharing website ranks as they have just become the #1 site for our file-sharing needs.

The news comes from some analytical work done by Torrent Freak to reveal The Pirate Bay has taken the top spot to become the world’s most-used file-sharing website. The rise in The Pirate Bay’s popularity is due to its gradual increase in the number of visitors, but the real reason might have to do with the drop in popularity of one-click hosting websites once Megaupload was shut down.

The sites that were compared with The Pirate Bay were all English-language file-sharing sites that were calculated using several analytic tools and traffic comparisons. This could possibly mean they’re not the #1 destination for file-sharers around the world, but it does mean if you’re an English-speaking file-sharer, you’re most likely going to The Pirate Bay for your specific needs.